Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 78

But the King replied, "Be silent, and let him go; he is my very faithful John--who knows the good he may have done?"

Who acts: King, faithful John · What happens: reply, be, let, go, know, do · To what, where: King, faithful John, good · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, faithful John), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 replied	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 replied	nsubj
4	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 silent	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 silent	punct
7	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 silent	cop
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 replied	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 silent	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 John	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 John	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 John	cop
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 John	nmod:poss
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 faithful	advmod
19	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 John	amod
20	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 replied	parataxis
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 knows	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 knows	nsubj
23	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 John	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 good	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knows	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 done	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 done	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 done	aux
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 knows	ccomp
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 John	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: ask	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	infinitive			silent property	tree rules
3	let in a quote	infinitive		King		tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	King not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present	King	my faithful John		tree rules
6	know in a quote	present	my faithful John	the good		tree rules
7	do in a quote	may · perfect	King			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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